What is Saju?

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Saju (四柱, “Four Pillars”), also Saju Palja (四柱八字, “Four Pillars Eight Characters”), is the Korean name for the Bazi Four Pillars of Destiny. It is not a separate engine — it is the same 子平 (Zi Ping) tradition transmitted from China into Korea, read in the Korean term skin. A Saju chart is built from date, time, and place of birth into eight characters: four Heavenly Stems over four Earthly Branches, one pair each for the Year, Month, Day, and Hour pillars. The Day Master, the Ten Gods, the Five Phases, the 60-term Jussim cycle, and the Dayun/Liunian time axis are the same structures as Bazi; the Korean voice names them 일간, 십신, 오행, 육십갑자, and 대운/세운. The consultation tradition is the 명리학 (“name-learning”). The Year Branch carries the Korean zodiac animal, the 띠. In Divination Nexus Saju is the Korean reading voice over the shared Four-Pillars engine — the same chart, the same structure, spoken in the Korean idiom.